Yes, it’s true! I am on the move from Chichester with my dear wife Sarah who will be taking on further studies at Oxford University, while I have a new job as Team Vicar in two village churches near Oxford. We move in September 2016. But no worries! Emma, our conductor, will be taking over […]

Pagham Village Hall Concert Our performance at Pagham Village Hall on Friday 11th December, 2015 was our best yet! We were raising money for the “Save Pagham Beach” campaign and the placed rocked! We had a full house and raised more than £1,500 for the campaign with more to come through ongoing sales of the […]

Spring 2015, January, sees the start of a new 12 week rehearsal session for all our choirs. We will be rehearsing for a BIG ALL CHOIRS Concert just after Easter, so the excitement (and nerves) build through the term. We never put people on the spot, but we do encourage individuals to step up to the […]

We had a great Autumn Term with successful Christmas concerts raising several hundred pounds for local charities. It is amazing how quickly the choirs pick up harmonies and song arrangements just by our “sing and repeat” method of teaching. Some of the favourite songs with the audience were our own arrangements of “Something Inside so […]

Yes I know! It’s summer and we are all having a rest in the brilliant sunshine – unless you are holidaying in Cornwall over the weekend of 8th to 10th August when a hurricane is expected to hit the coast! Oh well! We had a great Summer Term with a lot of fun had by […]

Singing is good for you! It’s official! No wonder when people come to our community choirs they describe the environment as a “stress free zone”. It’s true, we do some interesting warm up exercises, but getting the breathing right and warming up those vocal cords starts the process of “de-stressification!” One of the most common […]

Community Choirs UK Gets The Beat! Every choir needs to have a sense of rhythm. So I took along our Djembe and dished out the boomwhackers to our Bognor Choir. Not sure if they were delighted or dismayed! We created an exercise in learning how to keep the beat to an African rhythm as various choir […]

Four Choirs And Counting! At the time of writing I am leading four choirs – the original New Community Choir based at Graylingwell Chapel in Chichester is the “mothership” with a membership of close to 200 people and an average attendance of 140 people. The journey along the way has been interesting to say the […]

Bringing the rhythm back into our lives! OK, the news is out! I am a closet drummer and percussionist! As a solo artist I used to play various instruments on stage (not all at the same time of course!) including an Korg O1W Keyboard, Fender Strat and a percussion kit stacked vertically above the keyboard! […]

Our Bognor Community Choir – Bersted Lane Our first session on Thursday 9th January was great with 47 people coming along – all rather nervous at first, but soon getting into the swing of things. There was a good mix of people of all ages and quite a few men turned up too! We have […]